Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-07-16
IN THE LAND OF THE MONTE
 ZUMAS.

Romance and Pio;uresqueness Disann.ar- ing beiore Modern Progress Sec ton so Rich That the Ind,.ns r.a iheir "uns with Balls of Pure silver
 CITY OF MEXICO, June 27tb, 1887.
 EDITOR CITIzES:-If you are conter,- plating trip to Mexico-as most ooo6 Americans are in these days-I wish fin impress upon your mind that the soon CT you make 1t the better. We're you going to Europe, to China, Jerusalem. CT to any other country where affairs are stationary, so to speak, it would make little difference whether you went nou or number of years later. But not so with Mexico. Here everything is ip s transition state, old things are fast mass in2 away, and not only the ancient land marks, but customs and traditions which marks, but customs and traditions which gave the country its greatest charm. sre disappearing like dew before the morn ing sun. Commercially and education ally the march of progress" may be an Improvem nt, but it is certainly desth to romance and picturesqueness.
 The old time cssas of Moorish archi- lecture, winch m other days were forts as well as castles, are being tricked oui with modern "ginger-bread work" ir oase imitation ot the pasts-bosrd houses ID the United States-wish much the same effect tha: the ribbons and gaw gsws of sweet sixteen" would produce upon the wrinkled brow of an octogen Grlan. h
 THE DRESS OF THE PEOPLE,
 the change is even more decidedly for the worse. Nothing could possibly be more appropriate and becoming to these dark eyed AexlcgnOs that their wide sombreros, jackets, silver-bedecked breeche- and gorgeous silken sashes; and Tor beautiful women Of the Span ish and Indian type, the beautiful lace mRntll!a draped about the head anG shoulders But now every woman oi fashion must have hidsOGs hat or boa nei-a la Americana, and the men O wealth no longer promenade the piszss m those dlstCacting Spanish eloaks, wisL l one satin-llned corner tossed over toe -ho1lder, which are warranted to make the plsinest and most unromRntic O. men look like Q veritable Romeo. Nov they lnsist upon London-ma6e ger ments, as nearly like those of northern CTS ss possible, regardless of the Tss | difference n the makeup of the Anglo S6xen and Latin races.
 Tho broad brimmed. silyeT-ladeu som aa=a- HHaa . Al eternal sunshiBs and SO becoming ct
 swsrthy skins and miinight eyes. must give place 10 the EiC h.tle hats i1 vogue
 among Amsricans-in many instances
 l g-Ieve to add. to those inc0mDarahlN
 ugly silken tiles, which make the hand
 -omest N sxican look like fool of the first water.
 Eve- She lower classes are fast dis ! carci-.. the seFape-th8t most pictur ssQUe and convenient of wrappings-
 and adopting in their stead any kind of -hoiGy oTercoat for evening wear. For
 neFly one If the charms of every rural
 gathering was the vivid c'loFing pro
 iuced by the multitude of bright hu-5 -erapes, e4ch ranchero and balf-bree7
 wearing one slung over bis shoulders aud regarding It-next to his sombrerC
 -ss his most precious earthly posses sion.
 The names of the streets are rapidly l changing from the partial O intensely | reiigIOus tO D0menclatures the mos
 3rosaic; as, for example, ''the street O'
 be sad Indian" and Grown of Thorns l street, are now called resPectivel! Fourth ayenue and Diaz street. Witt
 characteristic poor taste, the govern ment iE d0!ng all ID its power to air ana .bet these sad innovations. First r silenced tEo Cathedral bells, which 1T he good old days were constantly call
 ng The fai. G2ul to pray CTS; then IL sbol- shed al coEyeuiusi and DcnGstic or
 lars, and forbade the wearing oi puestly habits upon the streets, so that now tbf
 ,owl and hempen gis3le. tine dear old
 ,hovel hatF. aud the black and gray robes of hooded nuns no more lend pie
 Eresgneness tO every scene. It IS, how.